A Viking Saga. Action and adventure at the end of the Viking age from Norway across the European Steppe, along the Silk Route into China’s notorious Taklamakan desert. The desert so called by locals because those who venture in seldom venture out. Experience ancient peoples, cultures, lost tribes and hidden kingdoms. As well as mystery, action, adventure, love, lust, greed, comradeship and betrayal. Just what one would expect in a Viking Saga. As the Viking age is brought to an end in 1066 with ignominious defeat at the battle of Stamford Bridge, a rag-tag group of Vikings conclude the quiet life is not for them and they decide to go-a-Viking one last time. Retracing a journey of their youth across the European Steppe and down the mighty Dniepr river heading for Byzantium. Enroute a chance discovery in a Kiev library leads them to venture even further afield - to Astrakhan, across the Caspian sea, up the mighty Oxus river, through Parthia and Bactria and along the ancient Silk Route into Asia and Tian Xia (China). Engaged in a battle not of their choosing, they inflict fatalities on the sinister and evil Black Scorpions who want to exact their revenge. Escaping entrapment in a cave, pursued, they flee by night across the Roof of the World and meet the remnants of the “lost” European tribe of Asia, the Hepthalites, who offer them protection in their city, hidden in the Tien Shan - the Celestial Mountains. A place where romance is kindled and love unexpectedly blossoms. During their winter sojourn in the Hidden City they gather more clues, and in the spring continue with their quest, on into the Taklamakan desert. The desert so called by locals because those who venture in seldom venture out. More danger and peril lies in wait for this rag-tag Viking crew as they travel along the Silk Route, the world’s first super-highway. At the eastern end of their journey they meet the Lang Ren, the Wolf people of Lou Lan, outcasts thieves and criminals living in an abandoned city in the desert. A city without water. A city about to die. A city in which the final clue to their quest is uncovered. What fate awaits this motly crew and what fate awaits the Lang Ren, a rejected element of Asian society?

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After being held captive for 10 days in a Satanic Cult, The McCannons barely make it out alive. They recuperate in a hospital and cant wait to leave Virginia behind. They thought it was over. They thought wrong. A psychotic doctor blames the brothers for the death of his own brother and seeks revenge. After just surviving their latest ordeal, the brothers find themselves in another one, more sinister then the one before. Both of the McCannons are marked for death and this time theyre not sure theyll survive!

A mother and her son have been executed in their home and fingerprint matches show their attacker died twenty years ago. But how can dead serial killers return to haunt the present? The answers lie in the darkest shadows of The Dead Room. When CSI Darby McCormick is called to the crime scene, it’s one of the most gruesome she’s ever seen. But the forensic evidence is even more disturbing: someone watched the murder unfold from woodland behind the house – and the killer died in a shoot-out two decades earlier. The deeper Darby digs, the more horrors come to light. Her prime suspect is revealed as a serial killer on an enormous scale, with a past that’s even more shocking than his crimes, thanks to a long-held secret that could rock Boston’s law enforcement to its core. Is it possible to steal an identity? Or are dead men walking in Darby’s footsteps? The line between the living and the dead has never been finer.

On what was supposed to be a relativley easy hunt, Matt gets hurt. He decides that him and his brother need to take a vacation. They travel to the mountains of Virginia to what was supposed to be a friendly town. When they arrive, however, they find out that it’s anything but. A satanic cult has control of the town and has their eyes on Zack. This time it’s Matt who has to save his brother before it’s too late. The cards are stacked against them and Matt must hurry before Zack is completely taken over.

To love is divine, whom do you love, and what do you love? A common misused word, love. What does it mean? Lust is not love but simply a selfish gratification of ones needs and desires.

Love the super-glue of the universe. Its the unbridled raw energy that attracts and binds opposites in the dance of life. Atoms—the building blocks of life—are constantly making love, courting one another in such a frenzied state that they give birth to matter. The essence of our beings, the essence of our world, our foundation, is love.

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Torn Between. . .

Alexandrine Marit is a witch in mortal danager. An evil mage craves the powerful, mysterious talisman that supplies her magic, and the only person who can keep her alive is a dark and dangerous fiend called Xia. With his fierce animosity toward witches, he’s hardly the ideal bodyguard. Yet as days turn into nights, she can’t deny the white-hot passion between them.

Desire and Temptation . . .

Xia hates witches. They enslave and mercilessly kill his kind. But he’s been ordered to protect Alexandrine, who, to his surprise, has a spirit he admires and a body he longs to possess. With the mage and his henchmen closing in, Alexandrine and her protector must trust the passion that can unite them . . . or risk losing everything to the enemies who can destroy them both.

Bad Company follows the exploits of Zack and Matt, two brothers who have been hunting the supernatural for some time. Together, they save people from things that go bump in the night, things that most people don’t even believe exist. They travel to New Orleans to help a friend of Zack’s. Things change for the worse there when they get tangled up with a Voodoo Priest who gains control of Matt’s mind through the ancient art of Voodoo. Under evil influence, Matt is dictated to kill his own brother and then himself. As Zack struggles to reach his brother before he himself becomes a sacrifice, time begins to run out fast. Will he be able to save their lives before it’s too late? Read the book to find out.

In the heart of suburbia monsters dwell. They are US. Pull back the curtains to unmask unthinkable acts hidden behind the white picket fences of the neighbors and friends you thought you knew.

From the author of The Night Projectionist comes eight tales of murder and malice.

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